The Unwanted by Peter Clenott
Available June 28, 2022
The Unwanted
As World War II begins, a fourteen-year-old child prodigy is being taken to be euthanized. Hana’s arrival at the Hollenschloss Institute sparks something in Silke, a sixteen-year-old beauty who has graced the covers of German magazines as the blonde, blue-eyed female Aryan prototype; a member of the Bund Deutscher Mädel. When Hana falls under suspicion for a post-war murder, ‘Hana the unwanted’ and ‘Silke the noble’ learn the only true homeland is family. For THE UNWANTED, Fatherland, Motherland, Holy Land ultimately mean nothing.
About the Author
Born in Portland, Maine, Peter Clenott graduated from Bowdoin College with a degree in History. He’s lived in the Boston area since graduation except for a stay in South Africa, researching and writing his novel Albertville.
Peter works for a non-profit agency whose mission is to keep people from being evicted or foreclosed upon, particularly during the Covid crisis.
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